speech, freedom of conscience, demo- cratic duties and rights. But in 1945, along with other nations, it foolishly showed itself willing to compromise with fate by "uniting" with other na- tions without a specific affirmation of the principles to which it holds firm, and we are now paying the price. \\7" e are " . d " . h P , h unIte WIt a eron government t at allots newsprint to newspapers that say the right words about Perón. We are "united" with the Kremlin, which is a palace of czars in workmen's cloth- ing. .L-\nd we seem inclined at the mo- ment to "unite" with Franco, lately of the Nazi-Fascist axis. Our Mr. Eric Johnston had a nice talk wit.h Franco the other day and the U.P. quoted him as saying, "I told Franco it was perfect nonsense that we do not have normal diplomatic relations with Spain." Nonsense in this world is easily perfected, and has been achieved long before this. The <...: most perfect nonsense of all is the supposition that a world or- der can be effective without a bill of particulars, without a biB of rights and dutIes, without principles, and without the sills of government. \tValk OVer to the East River and you will see a vast field of rubble-brick and broken stone and plaster dust-where the capital of the world is to rise. It is a sobering sight, this rubble, Tarning of the shape of things to come in a world that imagines it can survive by balancing its arn1ies instead of by writing its constitution. 24 pIes. The U. . is without force because it is ,-vithout principle. Designed to ac- commodate and propitiate both East and West, the U.N. never was given a set of principles around which it could build force and maintain order. Talk of "po- lice force" for the U.N. is poppycock. (The word our State Department used the other day was "untimely," but the right word is "poppycock.") Force fol- lows principle and force develops wher- ever there is agreement on principle. In San Francisco, in 1 945, this siln'ple fact was timidly avoided, and there was no attempt to agree on principles, no in- sistence on it-only a willingness to assurpe that nations would coöperate for peace. They are now coöperating, out not for peace. T o a state as well as to an indi- vidual there is an advantage in be- ing wholly uncompromising about cer- tain matters. The United States has no intention, in the long run, of compro- mising with anybody in regard to free !' b ;1 :t 4-.1 #' :t 7-:' : l " :t., '$. :--:-:-......-_..--- ; , ;.:y:::, nm f1!fl ^ ffäi tÐi1 )?; F f\ ff' 1 . J ; < " \' ,,', 11il) .......-. ,. - --.' .--. : 1 l :Mfi t:. 00) TIJ J t t . m ...-. rf'."':4 i ' r' J Êfa1 fI liD x:, {.{(:': ft. < <i . Y ;'. . ,'.'. ........-- >-0 . Ii < .:,;":r.: '. r 1+1j1 . '.:..',. "." .' . ";: . ',... :...:, .' .... ..''': '". .", '.' .::':-..::.:.-:':,':." L.:t: :';; :.OX:; . II [fff ' ':'" ' r77 . '-" [ I, "Y 1 I ...,.:':. ... .... ....,.. " ,.' . .....;. ,,- ..., :-"::;.......: .:::. ::.;-::: < '.' r- "''':'':' j ':''''''';' . j " ."..... . J+.-::.,. : .rt.{I ': .... ":: '. >; ..r'...." .. +. :: ,': :1' .,.....,..., ... . :.;;.. ":'.-: ((Doesn't want to overlook the penthouse 'ote, I guess." OCTOBER 2 , 194-8 L{Fltd of Plenty O NE of a trio of ladies back from a Scandinavian cruise tells us that she and her com- panions found a tendency among the people they met to still re- gard all Americans as immensely wealthy. The ladles needed some spending money in Goth- en burg and approached a police- lnan, who, they discovered, spoke English, and asked him to (lirect them to a bank. He looked worried. "You are Americans," he said, "and the onl) bank nearby is a small bank." They replied that that would do, and he escorted them to it and, with a salute and a flourish, opened the door for them. They were gratified that he didn't accom- '--